[lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:18:16 -0400
The 12-gauge was what I meant that bears are always on the losing side of
humans. It's in their interests to be as wary of humans as possible, but
they're just too gentle to be afraid. If the bear misread you, he'd be
dead for no reason than because he happened to make your acquaintance.
After we had that flurry of bear activity in the spring, I heard a lot of
gun shots. I'll bet those bears were killed. We had a bear hunt I guess a
year ago and they killed something like 285 bears, and I guess the rest
were killed illegally by scared humans. Love those humans.
The Elizabethans hated bears. They thought bears were the embodiment of
all that was ugly and evil. They loved "bear baiting", basically torturing
bears to death as entertainment. Queen Elizabeth loved it and it was
considered a "royal sport", her favorite blood sport. They were an
extremely violent society; much of the excuse for the violence was the
religious war between Protestants and Catholics, and also because of
carrying out law and order. The main entry into London was covered with
heads on stakes. Shakespeare came out of that violence and some of his
plays are pretty violent, but that's an unfortunate inevitability. Barbara
Tuchman writes about the ubiquitous, as in the air and water, violence of
the Middle Ages. The Elizabethans weren't that far removed in time from
the Middle Ages. We're a little more removed from the Elizabethans in
terms of time, but now it's back to the New Middle Ages in any case,
replete with calls for torture for being in the wrong religion, or close to
it anyway.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/21/2006 11:43:52 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
>
> >>Mr. Bear isn't your friend, Eric.
>
> Hence the 12-gauge loaded with slugs (aka "punkin balls").
> Black bears hardly ever attack humans, unless one comes
> between a mom and her cubs.
>
> I had noticed (what I thought was) a wide deer bed in the
> tall grass up there. When I saw the bear I wanted to learn
> if the bear was using that spot. Sure enough, that's where
> it was sitting. The clown of the woods, holding solitary
> court under an old Jefferson Apple tree. Have nicknamed him
> Hilly.
>
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